diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index bad56aa1465006582f3ab3e9cdaed6a7d183724d..c27c874d9e9da10e60df5e5378c87a2dbb9b79f2 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -19182,7 +19182,7 @@ virDomainDefParseCaps(virDomainDefPtr def,
                                                      def->os.arch,
                                                      def->virtType,
                                                      NULL, NULL))) {
-        if (!(flags & VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_OSTYPE_CHECKS))
+        if (!(flags & VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE))
             goto cleanup;
         virResetLastError();
     } else {
@@ -28782,8 +28782,7 @@ virDomainDefCopy(virDomainDefPtr src,
     virDomainDefPtr ret;
     unsigned int format_flags = VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_SECURE;
     unsigned int parse_flags = VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_INACTIVE |
-                               VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE |
-                               VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_OSTYPE_CHECKS;
+                               VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE;
 
     if (migratable)
         format_flags |= VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_INACTIVE | VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_FORMAT_MIGRATABLE;
diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.h b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
index 5e2f21dea34a75cf64c6326a131d5199a2467207..a804e86f6c8417ee9c71a5248d222483f6d1ba83 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.h
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.h
@@ -2981,24 +2981,21 @@ typedef enum {
     VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_DISK_SOURCE     = 1 << 6,
     /* perform RNG schema validation on the passed XML document */
     VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_VALIDATE_SCHEMA = 1 << 7,
-    /* don't validate os.type and arch against capabilities. Prevents
-     * VMs from disappearing when qemu is removed and libvirtd is restarted */
-    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_OSTYPE_CHECKS = 1 << 8,
     /* allow updates in post parse callback that would break ABI otherwise */
-    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ABI_UPDATE = 1 << 9,
+    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ABI_UPDATE = 1 << 8,
     /* skip definition validation checks meant to be executed on define time only */
-    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE = 1 << 10,
+    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE = 1 << 9,
     /* skip parsing of security labels */
-    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_SECLABEL        = 1 << 11,
+    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_SECLABEL        = 1 << 10,
     /* Allows updates in post parse callback for incoming persistent migration
      * that would break ABI otherwise.  This should be used only if it's safe
      * to do such change. */
-    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ABI_UPDATE_MIGRATION = 1 << 12,
+    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ABI_UPDATE_MIGRATION = 1 << 11,
     /* Allows to ignore certain failures in the post parse callbacks, which
      * may happen due to missing packages and can be fixed by re-running the
      * post parse callbacks before starting. Failure of the post parse callback
      * is recorded as def->postParseFail */
-    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ALLOW_POST_PARSE_FAIL = 1 << 13,
+    VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ALLOW_POST_PARSE_FAIL = 1 << 12,
 } virDomainDefParseFlags;
 
 typedef enum {
diff --git a/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c b/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c
index 9c537ac7d14be53deb117168740b88dbbad1a0e5..adba1492412670fc145399a399da94684eda25a0 100644
--- a/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/snapshot_conf.c
@@ -273,8 +273,6 @@ virDomainSnapshotDefParse(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt,
         if ((tmp = virXPathString("string(./domain/@type)", ctxt))) {
             int domainflags = VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_INACTIVE |
                               VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE;
-            if (flags & VIR_DOMAIN_SNAPSHOT_PARSE_INTERNAL)
-                domainflags |= VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_OSTYPE_CHECKS;
             xmlNodePtr domainNode = virXPathNode("./domain", ctxt);
 
             VIR_FREE(tmp);
diff --git a/src/conf/virdomainobjlist.c b/src/conf/virdomainobjlist.c
index 72064d7c663a7c275b23c71002b5cda2bef801ff..52171594f34f30ecc2fa7c96fe8bab92e0a882a0 100644
--- a/src/conf/virdomainobjlist.c
+++ b/src/conf/virdomainobjlist.c
@@ -492,7 +492,6 @@ virDomainObjListLoadConfig(virDomainObjListPtr doms,
         goto error;
     if (!(def = virDomainDefParseFile(configFile, caps, xmlopt, NULL,
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_INACTIVE |
-                                      VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_OSTYPE_CHECKS |
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE |
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ALLOW_POST_PARSE_FAIL)))
         goto error;
@@ -544,7 +543,6 @@ virDomainObjListLoadStatus(virDomainObjListPtr doms,
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_STATUS |
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ACTUAL_NET |
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_PCI_ORIG_STATES |
-                                      VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_OSTYPE_CHECKS |
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE |
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ALLOW_POST_PARSE_FAIL)))
         goto error;
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
index 03b6d92912e3c726e0b233cdc61d97e68cebb8f9..84117a3e63ca4aff9fbedc464d1cd62d0499ebab 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
@@ -2777,7 +2777,7 @@ mymain(void)
      * will avoid the error. Still, we expect qemu driver to complain about
      * missing machine error, and not crash */
     DO_TEST_PARSE_FLAGS_ERROR("missing-machine",
-                              VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_OSTYPE_CHECKS,
+                              VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE,
                               NONE);
 
     DO_TEST("name-escape",
diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
index 795ddc70032dae56ad2c8665211dc2ef59a15a9c..c6cb2dda0cf048c3a33d81e49e24501feede95b2 100644
--- a/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuxml2xmltest.c
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ testCompareStatusXMLToXMLFiles(const void *opaque)
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_STATUS |
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ACTUAL_NET |
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_PCI_ORIG_STATES |
-                                      VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_OSTYPE_CHECKS |
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_SKIP_VALIDATE |
                                       VIR_DOMAIN_DEF_PARSE_ALLOW_POST_PARSE_FAIL)))
         goto cleanup;